----- Original Message ----- From: "Telsa Gwynne" <hobbit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 07:20 Subject: Re: Gnome very slow > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:43:02AM -0600 or thereabouts, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > [Reformatted a little to get rid of the extra quote marks from the > forward] > > > > > I am having difficulties with gnom. There is excessive > > > > delay between clicking on an item and any response. This > > > > delay is from 30 sec to 1 minute. I am running Mankrake > > > > 9.2 on a athlon 2100+ XP w/512M mem running @ 1.7G on a > > > > gigabyte KT400 mobo. The kernel is 2.4.22. > > I think the clue is in here, and I nearly posted, but Malcolm asked > the question I was going to. > > > > > This is unacceptable. KDE runs at a much faster rate and top, > > > > on the gnome desktop, with nothing going on cycles from 1 > > > > to 3 processess running, approx 88 sleeping. I don't have > > > > a clue. Since this isnt normal I came to the experts. > > > > > > Obviously this is not normal, but you have not really > > > provided enough information that I can think of anything > > > obvious to suggest. > > > > > > When say "clicking on an item", what do you mean? Are you > > > selecting a menu item or something on the desktop or ...? > > > > > Previously I dont remember using the menu a lot, due to the > > speed, so I guess I was mostly clicking on icons & applets > > on the desktop and panel. > > > > So you have 'top' running in a terminal and you say that > > > one to three processes are running actively -- which > > > processes are they? Are they using a lot of CPU? > > > > No. A 386 could have handeled what the cpu was doing. > > Monitor applett showed a spike occasinally not very high > > (about 1/8"). the only time the cpu showed activity was > > during installation of a program + an occassional burst to > > 1/2 in high and decaying for no more than 1/4 in in time. > > The only processes I saw on top yesterday were X, top & > > terminal. Today with normal cpu activity on the monitor > > there was rpmv, top, X & ternimal, rpmv stopped showing up > > while I was watching. > > > > time to time)? Is the machine connected to a network? If > > > so, can it do DNS lookups (the period of inactivity could > > > be related to DNS timeouts in some circumstances)? > > > I did note that there is a DNS. I know nothing about it however, what, why, or what it does(Name Server: What names does it need to serve). > > > Previous to today it was always there today things are > > 'normal'. No network as far as I know no DNS. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > No network at all. There is however an eth0 card. I suppose for connection to DSL should I wish to do so. This box should be configured for a stand alone desktop. > This may be the crux. > > A consistent 30s delay between clicking a menu item and > the application starting sounds like something trying to > establish a connection and timing out to me. > > I am not clear on the details, but Gnome does like to > know when it's on a network. It used to be the case that > if you had messed up settings, Gnome would try to read > something (nameserver?) as it started up and then tell you > it couldn't identify something (hostname?) and did you > want to continue to log in? > > If you did, you would get 30s delays on every new Gnome > app starting up, from the editor to gnome-terminal. > > If you have a machine which is absolutely not connected to a > network (laptop, for example), it's fine. If you have a machine > which is correctly connected to a network, it's fine. If Gnome > gets the idea that it is on a network but can't contact the > (hmm --what? something, anyway!) to find out where on the > network it is, it gets very upset. > > You can find out whether it's doing something like this > with strace, perhaps. This will generate _tons_ of output > so don't post it all to the list! > If you could post the command or directions I'll try it, strace is installed but I know nothing about the program. > > > Are you just using the standard GNOME packages that came > > > with the Mandrake installation? > > > > > Yes GNOME 2.4. > > I don't know enough about Mandrake to know how to do this, > but if you could somehow not only disconnect the box from > a network but convince the machine that it is disconnected > (comment out everything in resolv.conf etc), and this goes > away, I would focus on this as the problem. > There is no network. Would this be located '/etc/resolv.conf' or where. Or where would you expect to find it? Hope this helps, remember I know little about Mandrake and not as much as I thought about Linux. Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
